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Heart Arrest

"Heart Arrest" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Cessation of heart beat or MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION. If it is treated within a few minutes, heart arrest can be reversed in most cases to normal cardiac rhythm and effective circulation.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Heart Arrest" by people in this website by year, and whether "Heart Arrest" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 190 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2013
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